He turned around to look at me.
“Oh shit, Ari! I’m sorry, baby. Rebecca is having contractions. They’re pretty far apart, but she’s freaking out. ”
“Wait, Jeff, I really need to talk to you. Can she not wait just a few extra minutes for you?” I said, almost pleading with him.
“Ari, baby, is this really that important?”
Tears started to build in my eyes. Oh my god. He was picking her over me. I felt like I was going to throw up.
“Ari! I need to go! Is this something that can wait until later tonight or tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow? Are you planning on staying with her tonight?”
“Well, no, of course not. But what if she needs to go to the hospital or something?”
When his phone rang again, he lifted it up to answer it, but I grabbed it from him, sending the call to voice mail.
“Ari, what the fuck? Give me the phone. ”
Now, I was just plain pissed off.
“No, I have to talk to you about something, and I need to talk to you about it now, Jeff. Its very important, and it involves our future. So, no, I won’t wait until tonight or tomorrow. ”
The fucking phone rang again, and Jeff grabbed it out of my hand. Of all the times for him to have cell coverage, this is the worst!
“Did you call them? Okay, good. No, its fine. Just calm down. We don’t want you going into labor early, Rebecca. I’ll be there soon. Yep. . . bye. ” Jeff hung up the phone and turned back to me.
“Ari, I promise you that I’ll be back tonight. We’ll talk then, baby, but I have got to go now. ”
He leaned down to kiss me, but I stepped back away from him.
“Ari, please don’t do this to me. ”
“It’s me or her. ”
“What?”
“I said…it’s me or her. You decide right now, Jeff. If you walk away from me, you are deciding on Rebecca and this baby that you don’t even know if it’s yours, or you stay here with me and our future. ”
He just stared at me.
“Ari, you can’t do this to me. I love you, but if this baby is mine and I just walked away from him…do you know what you’re asking me to do?”
“It’s me or her. ”
“Oh fuck, Ari. I don’t have time for this bullshit game. I’ll be back tonight, and we’ll talk then. ”
He turned and walked away from me.
The moment he rounded the corner, I fell to my knees and started crying. Oh. My. God. He left me.
He left. I put my hand to my stomach and cried so hard that I could hardly breathe.
He left…us.
***
I slowly started to walk out of the barn. Heading back up toward the house, I could see a few people dancing on the dance floor that Gunner, Josh and Jeff had made. Taylor Swift’s song, “The Moment I Knew,” was playing. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, what a perfect song to play right now.